I'd like to bind a model with a different field name to the TelerikCheckBoxListFilter in the filter menu.  Currently, this does not work because the Data has to have a member with the same name as the Field, which is used to update the filter descriptors.

 

Current Situation:

I have a single API for retrieving lookup values for the filters, that are always called on-demand (when the menu displays). This also supports cascading filter menus. If I want to supply the values back to filter menu I have to make specific code for each field on the model that I want to filter. For example, if I have a FlightNumber column it looks something like this...

public async Task<IEnumerable<object>> FilterValues_FlightNumberAsync() =>
       (await Service.GetFilterValuesAsync(nameof(MyModel.FlightNumber), GetLastGridRequest()))
       .Select(v => new { FlightNumber = v.Value });

The results of FilterValues_FlightNumberAsync() are then passed in via FilterData below (where @Field would be set to "FlightNumber")

<TelerikCheckBoxListFilter Data="@FilterData" Field="@Field" @bind-FilterDescriptor="Filters" />

This leads to a bunch of tedious code that should not be needed... A specific FilterValues_ function is needed for every column that needs to be filtered

 

What would be preferable:

Being able to use a single method to retrieve filter values. e.g.

public async Task<IEnumerable<object>> FilterValuesAsync(string memberName) =>
       await Service.GetFilterValuesAsync(memberName, GetLastGridRequest()); // returns something like LookupValue[] which is a generic LookupValue { Value  =... } class

 

To not break backwards compat, maybe could have an optional DataField parameter...

<TelerikCheckBoxListFilter Data="@FilterData" DataField="Value" Field="@Field" @bind-FilterDescriptor="Filters" />

This would take in LookupValues and and produce FilterDescriptors with MemberName set to Field

Or maybe event better, use generics and allow a callback to extract the filter value...

<TelerikCheckBoxListFilter Data="@FilterData" GetFilterValue="GetFilterValue" Field="@Field" @bind-FilterDescriptor="Filters" />

where GetFilterValue is a Func<TData, string> for example. 

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We will most likely keep the Field parameter as is (pointing to the field from the Grid data that will be used to take the distinct options) and expose something like TextField parameter that will point to the field form the TelerikCheckBoxListFilter data containing the distinct options/labels.